Songs are closely linked to narrative and language

A Wall Street Journal Best Book To ReadA song comes on—and suddenly, you’re somewhere else., Transported, The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams, Elizabeth Margulis, 9781324095798

When people listen to music, they often imagine remarkably similar stories. The authors show these shared imaginings selectively rely on stimulus-specific patterns in a set of modality-general brain r...

Interdisciplinary presentations and discussions on capturing inner experience during music listening and other forms of arts engagement

We store memories as a jumble of sensory fragments. Music can snap the pieces together and conjure up old feelings.